At 3,972 gross tons, MV Ascension is the 47,966th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 1.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,881 container ships held here, it ranks 3,572nd by tonnage — larger than 4% of that group. Their median tonnage is 33,698 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 140,096 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (498 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, with 348 hulls on record.
United States is the country of registry for 2,278 vessels in this directory, of which MV Ascension is the 476th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (977 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,706 GT. Browse every ship flagged United States.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 49 container ships flying the United States flag, of which 44 are larger by tonnage.
MV Ascension was built in 1993, making it 33 years old. It is one of 1,073 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,586 GT; within it this ship is the 501st largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 1 vessels to Sedef Gemi Insaati AS, with a median tonnage of 3,972 GT, delivered between 1993 and 1993. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 97.8 m overall, MV Ascension is 123.8 m shorter than the 221.6 m median for container ships on record, with a beam of 17.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 8912857 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 1991 and which range from 1988 to 1998. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1993.
Its IMO number, 8912857, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 8×7 + 9×6 + 1×5 + 2×4 + 8×3 + 5×2 = 157 — and the last digit of that total, 7, must equal the seventh digit, 7. It does, so this number is well formed.
